total war broken

Chapter 38 The Mysterious Iron Peak Village
In the early morning of the next day, everyone got up early, and the militia team had now expanded to 40 people, half of them were spearmen, and half of them were sword and shield hands. It's a pity, otherwise, if you recruit ten gunners, your team will be complete with all types of arms.

Han Gang and the group of spearmen, sword and shield hands got up early, and they ate more food than others. In contrast, they had to practice for an hour each in the morning and evening, and they had to do some exercises while walking. Formation training, and sometimes combat formation training, was brutal.

Han Gang and the two of them trained hard. The pairs of soldiers lined up neatly and performed all kinds of drills. If anyone did not move correctly, Han Gang's stick would hit him, and he heard all kinds of screams all morning. Voice.

After the training, the group set off. After walking for half a day, they saw a small fortress. The fortress seemed to be surrounded by a circle of walls, which looked a bit dignified. On the three-story plastered stone wall, there were ten The sight of several artillery pieces made Xiaochuan a little frightened.

There was actually a moat outside the walled city, which was dug to a width of more than ten meters, and a suspension bridge in the middle was lowered.

Standing on the city wall were a group of soldiers wearing iron leaf armor, holding various weapons in their hands, standing very majestic, some holding fire blunderbuss, and there were even many multi-barreled tiger-wing blunderbuss! .

"Have we come to a powerful military guard?" Xiao Chuan asked strangely, but how could a guard be established here in this wilderness with no villages in front of it and no shops behind? The area fled, but the one in front of him didn't look like anyone would flee.

"I've never heard of such equipment in the inner guards!" Han Gang glanced at the city in a strange way.

"Yes, this shouldn't be the guard house!" Han Tie also nodded, but he couldn't figure out why there was such a powerful fortress here after thinking for a long time.

Xiao Chuan looked at Huang Chunsheng, the family had been to Shandong in the early years, and asked him if he knew.

Huang Chunsheng took a look at the village, then nodded and said, "This is the place where local military craftsmen gather. It's called Tiefengzhai. It was originally a village built by a craftsman named Tie. Later, all the craftsmen came to join him, so it developed. Woke up."

"The artisan households live here?" Xiao Chuan was stunned. Didn't you mean that all artisan households would be subject to control?This nima craftsman is about to create a small fortress.

"What you don't know is that the blacksmiths in Tiefeng Village, in addition to helping the court make equipment, sell weapons at other times every year, because they are ancestral craftsmen with superb skills. Some big families come to buy weapons for their servants. They If you don't refuse, even a bandit will sell you weapons," Huang Chunsheng said slowly.

Xiao Chuan was shocked, Nima, no one mentioned this kind of thing in the history books, but I can understand after thinking about it, these craftsmen are superb, how can the court not make much money, and I don’t make extra money, sooner or later I will get part-time jobs Starving to death, but getting together like this, although this is a place where there are no birds, but such an aboveboard sale, it is simply an aboveboard black gun sales group.

"Did I hear you right?" Han Gang picked out his ears, looked at the majestic village in front of him, and said, "Those craftsmen openly make weapons and sell them to those bandits! Now I understand why Heijiao Village Those bandits can have such good equipment."

Han Gang immediately shouted: "The local garrison pampers them so much, aren't they afraid of becoming bandits?"

Huang Chunsheng smiled, with disdain in his eyes, and said, "Being a big bandit? Do these local officials have the guts, or have the courage to attack bandits? Ha ha!"

Hearing Huang Chunsheng's words, how many people understood that the local garrison didn't suppress the bandits anyway, they pretended they didn't see that they were big bandits, and they didn't take it as their responsibility to keep the border safe and the people safe, selling weapons to bandits?Hehe, anyway, we didn't intend to fight bandits, so it doesn't matter how powerful they are to us.

"In that case, if you sell weapons openly, even if you don't suppress the bandits, no one cares about them," Han Tie sighed.

"Yes, someone reported it before, but it was nothing in the end. After these craftsmen get together, it will be different. Who cares? They are making so much money now. Who wants to give up this kind of profiteering business? Who cares? Busy dealing with Jiannu and paying fees, how can I care about such a small village?" Huang Chunsheng said with a sense of desolation in his tone, "Moreover, the most important thing is that these craftsmen themselves make weapons for the imperial court. How many people care about the oil and water in the middle?" So, if they are confiscated, how many people will lose a way to get money"

Looking at the few people, Huang Chunsheng said: "These craftsmen and those court officials donated weapons to the frontier army, how many kickbacks they got in the process, and how many people benefited. No one knows. It's just for this benefit. No one dares to mess with Iron Peak Village."

Xiao Chuan was stunned, but he didn't expect such a village to exist in this history. It was simply a bug. If he develops in the future, he must go to this place and gather all these craftsmen.

"However, when the old man came here for the first time, it was five years ago. At that time, the imperial court was not as it is now. The stockade was still restrained due to the establishment of slaves and thieves. Now the stockade is becoming more and more lawless." Huang Chunsheng said with a lonely tone .

Han Gang and the two were filled with righteous indignation, but Wang Youcai thought of another aspect and said: "We robbed thousands of silver last time, this time we can buy some weapons, haha"

Xiao Chuan glanced at him and said, "It's just right, we've lost almost all of our food, and the money is still there. Let's see if you can buy something."

"My lord, how could we go shopping in such a village that has caused such a disaster to the country and the people?" Han Gang said loudly, with a face full of incomprehension.

Xiao Chuan helplessly looked at Han Gang, who was filled with righteous indignation, and said, "Hey, if we don't buy it, others will buy it, right? If we don't buy him to protect these people, then these weapons will be sold by bandits if we don't save them, and they will harm people." ?”

Hearing what Xiao Chuan said, Han Gang nodded and said, "Yes, that's the reason, then let's buy more, my lord."

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